Category: Feminism

In the past few years, a Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has become a feminist icon for many. The author openly criticizes patriarchal oppression, speaks often about the importance of feminism and equal rights for women, and consequently, she reflects her convictions in her literary works: Adichies works wholly indict the patriarchal oppression of women…

This essay will discuss various comparisons between two sociological theories by touching on why society is structured the way it is as well as comparing and contrasting both views. The two theories that will be discussed are Marxism and feminism, both of which go on to have a significant impact upon modern-day politics. At its…

This essay aims to examine Gary Ross The Hunger Games, a dystopian science fiction adventure film, using Marxist theory, and feminist theory. The Hunger Games was released in 2012 and took place in the future dystopian world of Panem where it follows the life of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen who comes from District 12. The leaders…

The concept of power is the foundation of the story and revolves around the characters and the position of power that every character holds is different in each version of Little Red Riding Hood. Even as Little Red Riding Hood/ Little Red Cap celebrates the empowerment of a young woman in search of sexual and…

Women in both the past and the present, and maybe even in the future, lived a life under unfair conditions. These conditions were decided on by men. To further explain the depth of these conditions, I am going to analyze the following stories: The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin, The Yellow Wallpaper by…

Wide Sargasso Sea is a novel that was written as a response to the text Jane Eyre in 1966. The novel was written by Jean Rhys, who wrote the text to give a voice to Antoinette Cosway, and provide a background to her story before she became the mad woman in the attic in Jane…

Within this essay, I will be comparing and contrasting the portrayal of feminism shown in Behns Oroonoko and Swifts Gullivers Travels. Numerous critics have analyzed Oroonoko from the perspectives of genre, cultural history, feminism, and postcolonialism – as a faux travel narrative, an early romance novella, a political allegory of the Stuart monarchy, a proto-feminist…

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is regarded as an important work of American Feminist literature as it explores the attitudes towards womens mental and physical health in the 19th century. The short story is fictional yet can be considered semi-autobiographical as it was written after Gilman experienced severe post-partum depression. In this passage,…

Simone de Beauvoir published her book The Second Sex following world war II in 1949. Her book would later become known as a feminist bible (Beauvoir, Borde, & Malovany-Chevallier, 2011). It became an epithet bound to discourage impious readers wary of a sacred text and a personality cult. It is through Simone de Beauvoir, that…

Feministic values are very prominent in the play The Merchant of Venice, mostly those involving the radical feminist concept of a patriarchal society. The female personas were able to exploit the activity of cross-dressing to accomplish the business they needed so that their lives might be more tolerable while under the control of men within…